Thomas J. Dohm of Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers Elected to Illinois Health and Hospital Association Board
Issued by the Illinois Health and Hospital Association on February 3, 2025
NAPERVILLE – Thomas J. Dohm, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers in Morris, has been elected to the Board of Trustees for the Illinois Health and Hospital Association (IHA). The IHA Board is the policymaking body for the Association, which represents more than 200 hospitals and nearly 40 health systems across Illinois. Dohm’s three-year term began on Jan. 1, 2025. The first IHA board meeting of the year was held on Jan. 24.
“We are pleased to welcome Tom to the IHA Board,” said A.J. Wilhelmi, IHA President and CEO. “Tom has decades of experience in the healthcare industry and a vision that will help us to advance important healthcare policy in Illinois.”
Prior to Dohm’s current role, he served as Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers’ Vice President of Professional Services, where he provided leadership and oversight for numerous ancillary and patient service departments.
Since joining Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers in December 2015, Dohm has introduced LEAN management and performance improvement and executed a $64 million master facility plan that resulted in expanded clinical space and improved efficiencies at the hospital along with a new emergency department, women’s imaging center, infusion therapy center, perioperative facilities, and 13,000 square foot healthcare center in Diamond, Ill. He has also been instrumental in the partnership between Morris Hospital and the YMCA that culminated with the opening of the new Morris Hospital YMCA in December 2024.
Prior to coming to Morris Hospital, Dohm was Vice President of Support Services at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago from 2014-2015. His more than 30 years of healthcare leadership experience also includes serving as chief operating officer at Provident Hospital of Cook County from 2011-2014, as well as numerous leadership roles with Oak Forest Hospital over a span of two decades.
A native of the south suburbs of Chicago, Dohm holds a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Health Administration from Olivet Nazarene University, along with a Bachelor of Arts in Business from Governors State University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Dohm and his wife, Jill, have three adult children and are active members of the Morris community where they reside. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Deerpath Ambulatory Surgery Center and is Vice Chair of the Grundy Economic Development Council Board of Directors. Dohm also serves on the Grundy Resiliency Steering Committee and Joliet Junior College Grundy Expansion Committee. He previously served on the Lightways Hospice Board of Directors.
About Morris Hospital
Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers has been improving the health of area residents since 1906. Located 55 miles southwest of Chicago in Morris, Illinois, the 89-bed Morris Hospital is known for its compassionate and personalized approach to healthcare. This is attributed to the outstanding work of 1,500 employees, 300 volunteers, and a medical staff of more than 200 physicians and allied health/advanced practice providers representing most medical specialties. Services are provided at 28 locations in 13 communities.
Morris Hospital is governed by 12-member, volunteer Board of Directors. The day-to-day operations are overseen by an experienced Administrative Team.
About IHA
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association, with offices in Chicago, Naperville, Springfield, and Washington, D.C., advocates for Illinois’ more than 200 hospitals and nearly 40 health systems as they serve their patients and communities. IHA members provide a broad range of services—not just within their walls, but across the continuum of healthcare and in their communities. Reflecting the diversity of the state, IHA members consist of nonprofit, investor-owned and public hospitals in the following categories: community, safety net, rural, critical access, specialty, and teaching hospitals, including academic medical centers. For more information, see www.team-iha.org. Like IHA on Facebook. Follow IHA on X (formally known as Twitter).
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